can the fbi get them? there's limited ways the fbi can get them. first, they can get a search warrant. in order to get that, it has to go to a federal judge and show evidence of a crime. second, they could write their own search warrants under the patriot act. in order to do that, they have to certify in a file in the fbi that this is an investigation for terrorism. hardly the case here. thirdly, they can just hack into the cia's computer or whatever computer server general petraeus was using at that time and hope that they don't get caught doing it. there's no other way that they could have done it. stuart: but you can legitimately go after every single e-mail e change. thousands of them. >> well, no, you have to meet certain conditions. those conditions are crime or terrorism. stuart: do you have to have a special search warrant to go after each e-mail? there were thousands of them between a top general in afghanistan and this lady. >> you do need a search warrant for each person. they would have to have gone to a federal judge and said there's p